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This study addressed the question, \u201cIs there a difference in breastfeeding frequency or infant weight gain for singleton infants discharged within 36 hours\u2019 postpartum who received either community nurse (home visit) or hospital nurse (clinic) follow-up?\u201d<\/jats:p><jats:p>Methods. A randomized, controlled trial was conducted at a university teaching hospital (3700 births\/y) and affiliated community health centers. A consecutive sample of 586 healthy mother-infant pairs were recruited from January 1997 to September 1998 before discharge; 513 (87.5%) contributed data on 1 or more outcomes. Forty-eight-hour postpartum telephone contact and day 3 nurse contact in the home (experimental) or at the hospital (control) were provided. The main outcomes measured were breastfeeding frequency and infant weight gain assessed at 2 weeks\u2019 postpartum by maternal diary and weight at home by research assistants, masked to group allocation.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Results. No clinically important or statistically significant group differences were found in daily breastfeeding frequency (mean difference experimental minus control = 0.1 feeds [95% confidence interval: \u22120.1\u20130.3]) or daily rate of infant weight gain (\u22121.1 g [\u22122.5\u20130.3]) based on intention-to-treat analyses.<\/jats:p><jats:p>Conclusions. Follow-up by nurses after short postpartum hospital stays, in either the home or a hospital-based clinic, of healthy infants discharged at &amp;lt;36 hours seems associated with satisfactory infant breastfeeding outcomes.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1542\/peds.109.6.1074","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2004,8,14]],"date-time":"2004-08-14T00:17:55Z","timestamp":1092442675000},"page":"1074-1080","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":53,"title":["Randomized Trial of Postpartum Care After Hospital Discharge"],"prefix":"10.1542","volume":"109","author":[{"given":"Anita J.","family":"Gagnon","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"},{"name":"McGill University Health Centre-Royal Victoria Hospital Site, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Geoffrey","family":"Dougherty","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"},{"name":"McGill University Health Centre-Montreal Children\u2019s Hospital Site, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Vania","family":"Jimenez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"},{"name":"Centre locale des services communautaires (CLSC) de Co\u0302te des Neiges, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nicole","family":"Leduc","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Universite\u0301 de Montre\u0301al, Montreal, Quebec, Canada"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"417","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2002,6,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2021121006231013100_R1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Lee KS, Perlman M, Ballantyne M, Elliott I, To T. 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